When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.
("As I Lay Dying")
More Quotes from William Faulkner:
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune
William Faulkner
The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business
William Faulkner
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust.
William Faulkner
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Life QuotesBased on Keywords: ridged, welted
I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.
Brady Anderson
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
Ernst Toller